Fact Sheet: KCR puts foot in his mouth!

Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao has virtually his foot in his mouth by inadvertantly admitting that the TRS is not a political party.

In reply to a question during a tete-e-tete with viewers in a private television channel, the TRS president categorically said the TRS was not a political party but only a movement launched for pursuit of seperate Telengana State. As such, the TRS is not obligated to obey the dictums of the Election Commission of India, he said.

KCR's statement has come as a blessing in disguise for the TRS rebel MLAs, who have been making a similar argument all these days, saying the TRS is not a political party and as such, it cannot issue whip to its MLAs. Therefore, they are now demanding that the Election Commission should make a serious note of KCR' statement and treat all the TRS MPs and MLAs as independants, who can choose their own line of action. They are also appealing to the Speaker of AP legislature to dispose of the petition filed by the TRS president seeking to disqualify them for fielding Kasani Gyaneshwar as an independent candidate in the recent elections to to the State Legislative Council.